Special Report

Connected ageing

Can technology fill the care gap?
With the number of Europeans aged over 60 set to double in the next 50 years, and the number of over-80s to triple, meeting the future care needs (and health costs)...

Private health?

The success of Public Health Genomics - using genome-based information and technologies for the benefit of public health - is dependent on access to vast biobanks of data. But how, when and with whom should...

Making Perfect Life?

The blurring boundaries between biology and technology
Biology and technology are merging in many more ways than ever imagined. An ambitious technology assessment study, Making Perfect Life, has delved...

Finding Nano

Can public cynicism about food technology be overcome?
The trillion-euro food industry is keeping quiet about its nanotechnology research but, regulated or not, products will be coming...

European power struggles

Can public resistance be overcome?
Call it people power. Or rather, people against power. Ordinary Europeans have become experts in delaying or even stopping the introduction of energy technologies....

Can public resistance be overcome?
Call it people power. Or rather, people against power. Ordinary Europeans have become...

volTA magazine

volTA was a magazine on Science, Technology and Society in Europe, initiative of fifteen technology assessment organisations that worked together in the European PACITA project aimed at increasing the capacity and enhancing the institutional foundation for knowledge-based policy-making on issues involving science, technology and innovation. It was published between 2011 and 2015 in 8 numbers.